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Thousands of pupils will be invited to be among the first to watch a landmark 3D film commemorating the First World War.

Directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson and comprised of restored and colourised archive footage from the Imperial War Museum (IWM), They Shall Not Grow Old, will be screened for school groups at the same time as the official premier at the BFI London Film Festival on October 16 .

It will also be shown to thousands of secondary school children across the country as part of the free Into Film festival in early November before it airs on BBC One on Armistice Day.

Details of the screening came as General, the Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, urged schools across the...

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